Metal, water, whatever 78
Posted on
May 12, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
For your licence fee today:
Archive for the ‘culture’
The talk of the town 294
Posted on
May 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Readers will know that as a rule we don’t just pinch bits of other peoples’ work wholesale, but in this particular case, given that the entire UK media’s been going on about it misleadingly for a solid week and still shows no sign of stopping, it seemed only fair that everyone should be up to speed on the source.
Something to believe in 177
Posted on
May 05, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
It’s a Bank Holiday and frankly there’s absolutely bugger-all of any interest in the news today, so I hope you’ll forgive me a personal indulgence, readers. I’ve only used the personal pronoun for a couple of Wings articles out of over 2,300 in the site’s two and a half years of existence, because the independence debate isn’t about me. But a curious piece in today’s Herald by David Torrance merits such a response.
If you don’t see what it’s got to do with that video*, bear with me.
Why don’t you go back to Islamia? 253
Posted on
May 03, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’ve quite frequently highlighted the ugly, irresponsible tone of the No campaign’s – and especially Labour’s – comments about “foreigners” in the independence debate. And the reason we do is because that sort of language feeds attitudes like these.
There is, sadly, more where that came from.
The belly of the beast 164
Posted on
April 29, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
I had no idea what to expect from the UKIP public meeting in Bath tonight. The city is genteel, wealthy and has been solidly Lib Dem for over 20 years. While there are of course some sketchier areas and it hasn’t been immune to the UK’s recent economic troubles, generally speaking it has little to complain about.
So when UKIP booked the 730 downstairs capacity of the Forum (a rather beautiful old Art Deco former cinema from the 1930s) for a public meeting, I hung onto the hope that there was at least a reasonable chance it’d be half-empty.
No luck there, then.
No That’s What I Call Music 56
Posted on
April 13, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
We’re off to watch the Scottish Cup semi-final now, so to keep you all entertained for the next couple of hours here’s a little something we put together at the request of columnist and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch, and for anyone who was listening to Radio Scotland’s “Headlines” this morning.
Hopefully we won’t need it ourselves by 3.30pm. #COYR
Anything you can do 102
Posted on
April 09, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
If it’s Wednesday, Labour must have changed their position on their future-devolution proposals again. Following our latest highlighting of the glaring contradictions in the shambolic “Devo Nano” plans, responses have started arriving to your letters.
If you’ve been listening closely, you’ll have heard that the position on whether the Scottish Parliament would be able to reduce taxes below the UK level has see-sawed from “No you can’t” (Johann Lamont MSP, 18 March) to “Yes you can” (Richard Baker MSP, 28 March) and back to “No you can’t” again (Tom Clarke MP, 4 April).
Well, guess what?
Playing with fire 178
Posted on
April 07, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
Earlier today we highlighted two pieces of disgraceful, mendacious smearing by The Scotsman, in conjunction with an “anonymous” Labour MP. The articles coincided with a wider campaign of demonisation across most of the Scottish and UK media against supporters of independence, backed up by elected Labour representatives on social media in what might easily be seen as a co-ordinated attack.
The tweets above are from the account of semi-literate Labour councillor for East Kilbride, James Docherty. They follow a week in which the Edinburgh South MP Ian Murray described the placing of one or more small “Yes 2014” stickers on his constituency office windows as an “out of control” escalation of intimidation and Alistair Darling accused some people objecting to a businessman sending a document full of scaremongering lies to 500 employees of his company as “shaming Scotland”.
These hysterical smears would be laughable were it not for the consequences they may yet bring about. We highlight some of those consequences below.
From Bath To Scotland 64
Posted on
April 06, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A passing query 278
Posted on
April 04, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
As far as we’re aware, “the largest arts festival in Europe” (indeed, the largest arts festival anywhere in the world) is the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Does anyone remember Ian Murray MP being in charge of it?
Art imitates life 98
Posted on
April 01, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
A short satire on triangulation 105
Posted on
March 21, 2014 by
Rev. Stuart Campbell
The last 40 years of UK politics accurately summarised in 30 seconds.
(From episode 3 of Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle, still on iPlayer at time of writing.)
